ECE/DNSC Seminar: "An Overview of NSF Funding Opportunities in Math and Decision Sciences"

ABSTRACT
In this talk, Dr. Yulia R. Gel will provide an overview of a wide range of the recent NSF funding opportunities in data sciences and will discuss various tips on how to improve your NSF proposal.

BIOGRAPHY
Yulia R. Gel is Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas and Program Officer in Statistics at the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Science Foundation. Her research interests include statistical foundation of data science, inference for random graphs and complex networks, time series analysis and predictive analytics. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, followed by a postdoctoral position in Statistics at the University of Washington, USA. Prior to joining UT Dallas, she was a tenured faculty member at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She held visiting positions at Johns Hopkins University, University of California, Berkeley, and the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.